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Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798 - Hardcover - GOOD
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781557505088
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
ISBN-10
155750508X
ISBN-13
9781557505088
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038538572
Product Key Features
Book Title
Millions for Defense : the Subscription Warships of 1798
Number of Pages
262 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, Military / United States, United States / General
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-015206
Synopsis
The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s - "millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France's galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered toward open war, were disturbed by their country's lack of warships. Provoked to action, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a statute that gave them government "stock" bearing 6 percent interest in exchange for their money. Their example set off a chain reaction down the coast. More than a thousand subscribers in the port towns pledged money and began to build nine warships with little government oversight. Among the subscription ships were the Philadelphia, later lost on the rocks at Tripoli; Essex, the first American warship to round the Cape of Good Hope; and Boston, which captured the French corvette Le Berceau. This book is the first to explore in depth the subject of subscribing for warships. Frederick Leiner explains how the idea materialized, who the subscribers and shipbuilders were, how the ships were built, and what contributions these ships made to the Quasi-War against France. Along the way, he also offers significant insights into the politics of what is arguably the most critical period in American history., The title of this book refers to the toast 'millions for defense, not a cent for tribute' that became popular in America during the late 1790s as the country teetered towards open war with France. Incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and France's galling seizures of US merchant ships, Americans were provoked to action, as this book recounts so vividly.
LC Classification Number
VA56.L45 2000
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